
The following is a collection of top 40 books out of 100 or so books I have read on entrepreneurship. I highly recommend adding them to your reading list if you haven’t read one.
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Zero to One — By Peter Thiel
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
![The Four Steps to the Epiphany by [Blank, Steve]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FvvcJVKYL.jpg)
The Four Steps to the Epiphany — By Steve Blank
Successful Strategies for Products that Win

The Lean Startup — By Eric Ries
How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Principles: Life and Work — By Ray Dalio
In Principles, Dalio lays out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams.

Competing Against Luck — By Clayton M. Christensen
The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Straight Talk for Startups — By Randy Komisar
100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds — From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship — By Bill Aulet
24 Steps to a Successful Startup.

Traction — By Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things — By Ben Horowitz
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers.

The E-Myth Revisited — By Michael E. Gerber
Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It

Influence — By Robert B. Cialdini
The Psychology of Persuasion.

The War of Art — By Steven Pressfield
Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Shoe Dog — By Phil Knight
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Good to Great — By Jim Collins
Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t

Built to Sell — By John Warrillow
Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

Blue Ocean Strategy — By W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

The Power of Habit — By Charles Duhigg
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The Effective Executive — By Peter F. Drucker
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Elon Musk — By Ashlee Vance
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Anything You Want — By Derek Sivers
40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

The Power of Full Engagement — By Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

Lost and Founder — By Rand Fishkin
A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World

The Dip — By Seth Godin
A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Crossing the Chasm — By Geoffrey A. Moore
Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

Hooked — By Nir Eyal
How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Antifragile — By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Things That Gain from Disorder

Skin in the game — By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Business Model Generation — By Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Founders at Work — By Jessica Livingston
Stories of Startups’ Early Days

Creativity, Inc. — By Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

The Snowball — By Alice Schroeder
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The Artist’s Way — By Julia Cameron

Just Listen — By Mark Goulston
Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

Rework — By Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Business Stripped Bare — By Richard Branson
Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Poke the Box — By Seth Godin
If you’re stuck at the starting line, you don’t need more time or permission. You don’t need to wait for a boss’s okay or to be told to push the button; you just need to poke.

The Innovator’s Solution — By Clayton M. Christensen
Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

When Things Fall Apart — By Pema Chodron
Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Turning Pro — By Steven Pressfield
Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work

The Personal MBA — By Josh Kaufman
Master the Art of Business

Start Small, Stay Small — By Rob Walling, Mike Taber
A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup
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